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Re: ANAND TECH FSAA comparison complete baloney...

#146
From: Lucky
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:00
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plegrand@home.com (Pierre Legrand) wrote:
>He doesnt understand the issue cause he isnt a game player. How
can he
>understand it if he doesnt actually play games....?
>
>He makes the entire comparison based on screenshots...wha...???
Then
>he adds insult to injury by using Low Res screenshots in Jpeg
>format...WHA...??? By doing that I have my doubts that he was
wise
>enough to correctly capture the screenshots ....especially the
Voodoo
>5.
>
>FSAA is about curing graphic artifacts while the game is in
>motion...thats what 3dfx is the absolute number one at...Nvidia
is
>second place a long way behind. I know this because I am a
>gamer...hell my review took so long for a variety of reasons
but one
>of them was I kept wanting to play Grand Prix Legends. At x4
its no
>contest and no matter what Anand says 4x is playable on a bunch
of
>games...using the 3dfx. Its exactly these kinds of half assed
reviews
>that burned me up enough to make me want to do my own.
>
>Go see my screenshots, download them in TGA format the way GOD
>intended you to compare screenshots. Look at my review between
the two
>hottest video cards. And ATI...please...what a joke...they
couldnt
>build a good driver if GOD himself came down from the heavens.
Anyone
>dumb enough to own one deserves what they get...I know I owned
a Rage
>Fury.
>
>
>
>Pierre PAPA DOC Legrand
>Voodoo 5 vs Geforce Shootout
>http://www.papadoc.net/Voodoo_vs_Geforce2.htm
>Flanker Target
>Grand Prix Legends Crash Test Dummy
>Aim-120 Propellent Addict
>Infamous Pink Flamingo Pilot...<VBG>
>Rants, Bullshit and Help Guides availible at
>www.papadoc.net
>
>
I'm a long time Voodoo fan. I fought the Nvidia cards all I
could. The thing for me after glide faded away was speed in
flight sims. I would rather have speed then candy in a flight
sim. The Nvidia cards are just faster then Voodoo cards. Heck
you can even run a flight sim in 32 bit and get good speed. I'm
not going to support 3dfx out of nostalgia and sell myself short.
Screenshots mean shit because that's not how you view a sim when
you play it unless you're running a 386. What you can discern is
speed or FPS. I laugh when reviews or people post screenshots.
It's not a totally practical way to really gauge a videocard if
you're playing sims or even first person shooters. If your
dancing around like a fairy playing RPG then that's a different
story. Why don't you argue about something worth arguing about..


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Subject: Re: ANAND TECH FSAA comparison complete baloney...
Date: 2000/07/31
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